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Jaws of Life : Stories / Laura Leigh Morris.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morris, Laura Leigh, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- West Virginia--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (ix, 155 pages))
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Morgantown [West Virginia] : Vandalia Press, an imprint of West Virginia University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- In the hills of north central West Virginia, there lives a cast of characters who face all manner of problems. From the people who are incarcerated in West Virginia's prisons, to a woman who is learning how to lose her sight with grace, to another who sorely regrets selling her land to a fracking company, Jaws of Life portrays the diverse concerns the people of this region face every day--poverty, mental illness, drug abuse, the loss of coal mines, and the rise of new extractive industries that exert their own toll. While these larger concerns exist on the edges of their realities, these characters must still deal with quotidian difficulties: how to coexist with ex-spouses, how to care for sick family members, and how to live with friends who always seem to have more.
- Contents:
- Frackers
- Brickton boys
- A room with a door
- Winners
- House of tires
- Fat bottomed girls
- The dance
- The tattoo
- Grief
- The Dollar General
- Controlled fall
- Popular
- Jaws of life
- Muddin'
- May ours be as happy as yours
- Photographing the dead.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781946684165
- 1946684163
- 9781946684172
- 1946684171
- OCLC:
- 1022793007
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